We made a very important change to the way troops on are printed on the map.

What has changed? (Geek talk alert! )Instead of downloading a transparent image with armies printed on it to your computer, the armies will be printed by your broswer's JavaScript engine.

What does this mean for me?

No more delays for armies to appear

No more missing armies

The font is slightly different... (same size as before and most numbers are identical in most browsers)

This will reduce load on Conquer Club servers which is always a good thing!

Community scripts affectedThanks to the cooperation of our most excellent Tech Team, all community scripts were tested in advance and updates were prepared for the two that broke: BOB, CM, and Assault Odds. If you use these scripts please upgrade to the latest version. Although it is a minor annoyance to have to upgrade, the new versions will perform quicker thanks to the changes:Assault Odds: Upgrade hereBOB: Upgrade hereCM: Upgrade here

Font issuesUnfortunately the font might look quite different for some users depending on their browser's zoom level and computer's OS. If things don't look right, there are 2 things you can try:

Thanks for keeping the updates rolling. Anything to take load of the server and speed things up is a good thing.

Of course I'm very used to the old font, but I'm finding this one VERY difficult to read, especially with colour codes on (which I use all the time). Are there any other fonts available? Could a user script use make use of a different font?

phantomzero wrote:Thanks for keeping the updates rolling. Anything to take load of the server and speed things up is a good thing.

Of course I'm very used to the old font, but I'm finding this one VERY difficult to read, especially with colour codes on (which I use all the time). Are there any other fonts available? Could a user script use make use of a different font?

~_~ This new font is bothering me right now, but presumably I will get used to it. In any case, it was a glaring enough difference that I immediately decided to check these forums to see what had been changed to cause it to look this way.

Font changes (and broken scripts) aside, this sounds like a good change from a technological standpoint, and ought to allow greater flexibility in the future, which could be interesting.

jbr wrote:~_~ This new font is bothering me right now, but presumably I will get used to it. In any case, it was a glaring enough difference that I immediately decided to check these forums to see what had been changed to cause it to look this way.

Font changes (and broken scripts) aside, this sounds like a good change from a technological standpoint, and ought to allow greater flexibility in the future, which could be interesting.

Yeah, it's a very interesting change for me.

About the font changes: it's now decided in the CSS which font is used. This should normally be about equal to what it was, but there could be browser differences etc. that didn't show before (since it was an image before). If you think the font looks very strange, please provide a snapshot.